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RSS hackers rsaThe Fraudster Economy Model: The Dynamics of Operating a Business in the Underground
White Paper Phishing first gained traction in 1996 with hackers trying to steal America Online passwords from unsuspecting users. Today, it has evolved into a far more menacing criminal enterprise, with bands of fraudsters working... [05 Oct 2009]
Convenient Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Web Portals & Enterprise Applications
White Paper Single-factor authentication is easily defeated by hackers and can result in a security breach, financial loss, or loss of sensitive data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). As the usage of online portals,... [05 Oct 2009]
Cloud computing security? It's all a bit hazy
News Speaking at the RSA Conference, Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun, was enthusiastic about cloud technology, predicting that at some point cloud computing will mean that "no real [programming] will ever be... [22 Apr 2009]
IT security still has "perilous gaps of risk": RSA
News Vendors must club together to fix the "perilous" gaps dogging security implementations, according to the president of security company RSA. In his opening keynote at the annual RSA Conference, Art... [22 Apr 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment The RSA Conference in San Francisco, the big annual get together for the great and the good of corporate IT security, is just getting under way - and I'll be reporting from it all this week. The RSA... [21 Apr 2009]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News Fraud-as-a-service is opening up computer crime to people with no technical expertise warned Uri Rivner, head of new technology at security company RSA. Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London,... [31 Oct 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Microsoft chief security advisor Ed Gibson, who helped advise government on the newly formed Police Central E-crime Unit (PCEU), described the unit as a "giant step forward... [30 Oct 2008]
Protecting the Beijing Olympics from hackers
News At the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Vladan Todorovic, information security manager for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, described how the team coped with the alarms triggered on more than 12,000 devices spread over 70... [30 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London he said: "We see frequent attacks on organisations for the purpose of theft of property. H is for Hackers Internet warfare expert Ira Winkler, president of... [29 Oct 2008]
Credit crunch storm looms for IT security
News Industry is facing the looming threat of new data auditing rules in the wake of the credit crunch, combined with the security headache of the introduction of cost cutting technologies, warned Tim Mather, RSA Conference... [28 Oct 2008]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News Andrew Moloney, security expert at RSA Security, said: "All the focus has been on the 'level one' merchants - the high street and multi-national retailers - and making sure they are compliant with PCI DSS. [06 Aug 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. H is for Hackers Employees and insiders are bigger... [17 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer for... [16 Apr 2008]
Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'
News Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users - I'm serious. At this year's RSA Conference however, the... [14 Apr 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, outlined the company's strategy for dealing with the phishing problem. [11 Apr 2008]
